Please be my partner.

As a large amount of spiritual energy poured into the golden retriever's body, the golden retriever finally avoided the fate of being completely eroded.

It takes energy to undergo bloodline transformation. Generally speaking, when the level of the bloodline is not much different from that of the injector, the injector can complete the transformation by adapting to the bloodline while absorbing the power of the bloodline itself.

But it is obvious that the bloodline gap between Golden Hair and the Dark Prison Dragon is too huge, which makes it impossible for it to absorb any energy from the latter. Therefore, it can only consume its own strength during the transformation. Obviously, this is somewhat a drop in the bucket.

And spiritual energy just fills this gap.

In this way, as Golden Hair fought against the Dark Prison Dragon's bloodline, more and more blood in his body was transformed. After breaking through a certain critical point, he finally absorbed the first ray of energy from the Dark Prison Dragon's bloodline.

After that, it got faster and faster.

Unconsciously, the dark energy wrapped up the golden hair, and it looked a bit like a Dark Hell Dragon Egg.

On the surface of the energy egg, strange inscriptions flashed from time to time, carrying the heritage of the dragon clan.

Time passed slowly, and the energy egg pulsed steadily like a heart.

Melen sighed slightly. After a month and a half of hunting at sea, plus the massive slaughter in the Demon Cave, he had already accumulated nearly 1500+ spiritual energies. He thought he was already wealthy, but...

Almost all of it was lost at once.

At present, the fusion of Golden Retriever's bloodline has passed the most intense period of conflict. Next, it only needs to continue to inject a small amount of spiritual energy to maintain stability.

Melen looked at the spiritual energy that was only 100+ and couldn't help but feel relieved. If the violent conflict lasted any longer, he would have to draw power from the Fairy Tale Kingdom again.

The fusion of Golden Retriever's blood was faster than Melen expected.

A day later, the steadily pulsating energy egg suddenly stagnated, then silently cracked open, revealing a three-meter-tall dog with dark golden hair.

When the golden retriever opened his eyes from the chaos, he saw Melen standing in front of him with a smile, and so...

He opened his mouth wide, stuck out his tongue, and showed a simple smile.

Seeing this silly smile, Mellen was also touched. He waved slightly, signaling the golden retriever to lie down. After the golden retriever did so, he stroked the silly dog's head fiercely and checked its current attributes...

【Name】：Golden Retriever

[Race]: Dragon Vein Dog-Headed Beast (Deep Blue Leader) / Dark Prison Dragon Dog (Deep Purple Lord)

[Racial Level]: Level 3/Level 4

[Racial Skills]: Form Transformation, Thick Skin, Fire Breathing/Dark Hell Dragon Scales, Dark Hell Dragon Might, Dark Hell Dragon Breath

【Evolution direction】：→???

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Under the stimulation of the Dark Prison Demon Dragon's bloodline, the dog-headed beast that awakens a trace of dragon bloodline can transform between the dragon vein dog-headed beast and the Dark Prison Dragon Dog.

[Form Transformation]: It has two forms: Dragon Vein Dog-Headed Beast and Dark Prison Dragon Dog. It can switch between the two forms at will. However, due to the incomplete blood fusion, it cannot fully control the power of Dark Prison Dragon Dog. In the case of severe energy consumption, the duration of this form will be greatly reduced.

[Thick Skin]: The Dragon Vein Dog-Headed Beast has thick skin that can reduce low-level elemental and physical damage to a certain extent.

[Breathing Flames]: The Dragon Vein Dog-Headed Beast can transform the power in its body into flames and spit them out. After becoming proficient in this technique, it can change the form of the flames to a certain extent.

[Dark Prison Dragon Scale]: Requires the Dark Prison Dragon Dog form to activate. It can be immune to elemental and physical damage that does not exceed its own level, greatly reduces the damage of the same level, and has additional resistance to darkness and fire power.

[Dark Prison Dragon Might]: Requires the Dark Prison Dragon Dog form to activate. This is the dragon race's innate majesty, which can be permanently effective without consumption unless actively restrained.

The Dark Prison Dragon's might has a unique negative effect of destroying the mind. After being covered by the Dark Prison Dragon's might, one will be subject to a mental test at regular intervals. Those who fail the test will have their minds destroyed and suffer from one or more negative effects such as confusion, cowardice, weakness, fear, etc.

[Dark Prison Dragon Breath]: Requires the Dark Prison Dragon Dog form to activate. This is a dragon-exclusive ability. In addition to basic power, it also comes with powerful dark purgatory power.

The attributes of the golden retriever are indeed luxurious, but Melen frowned after reading it.

Normally, blood fusion involves integrating one bloodline into another living being, combining them into one.

But now Golden Retriever appears in two forms, which is obviously caused by incomplete blood fusion. Otherwise, Golden Retriever should have inherited all the abilities of the Dark Prison Dragon in the form of a dog.

Chapter 182 Disaster

After staring at the golden retriever and thinking for a while, Melen felt that it was probably because the bloodline of the Dark Prison Dragon was too strong and the golden retriever was unable to absorb it completely.

There should be two solutions. One is to improve the strength of the golden retriever, and the other is to evolve its bloodline.

The first method can subtly absorb and integrate the alien blood in the body, which will be a relatively slow process of adjustment.

The second method is much faster. According to Mellen's experience, the settings should be completed during the bloodline exploration stage, and then all problems can be solved once and for all through evolution.

However, everything is based on first come first served, and the Golden Retriever’s problem is not a matter of life and death, so the next one to evolve should naturally be Spike, and the Golden Retriever should just queue up behind him.

After sorting out the golden retriever's problem, Melen finally breathed a sigh of relief. He stood up and walked to the lava lake, lost in thought.

The lava in the lava lake has changed its properties after being soaked in the Dark Prison Dragon Egg for thousands of years. It has become a very rare extraordinary material. In addition, this cave was arranged by the dragon clan, and it can continuously extract underground lava and transform it into elemental power, which is also very precious.

Of course, Melen would not just leave such a treasure here, so he had to find a way to take it away.

Just as Mellen was lost in thought, Xiao Honglian looked at the big golden retriever with great interest, especially the focused look in the latter's eyes when it looked at its owner, which made the little guy feel that this was a dog of the same kind.

For Xiao Honglian, any dog that is close to its owner is its half-brother!

Little Honglian came to the golden retriever and gave an enthusiastic "woof" as a greeting.

The golden-haired man, who was looking at Mellen with a simple smile, restrained his expression and turned to look at Xiao Honglian with a dark look in his eyes, which seemed extremely unfriendly.

Xiao Honglian: How come this big golden retriever has two faces (ΩДΩ)?!

Melen, lost in thought, seemed to sense something and turned his head in confusion. What he saw was...

The golden-haired boy still showed him a simple smile, while the little red lotus beside him seemed a little shocked.

Shaking his head, looking away, and ignoring the dogs' interaction, Mellen finally decided to move the entire cave away.

Although, this is probably a rather stupid approach.

Because the layout of the cave is basically based on the underground lava. Once the cave is moved away, unless he finds a similar environment or learns enough knowledge to adjust the internal layout of the cave, he will not be able to make the cave function again.

However, because the Dark Prison Dragon Egg has been destroyed by Melen, the existence of the dog-headed beasts in the Bound Demon Cave has disappeared. Once a large number of dog-headed beasts leave the Demon Cave, it means that the defense here will be greatly weakened, and one day adventurers will reach the deepest part and find this cave.

Therefore, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, it is better to move the entire cave away.

Colorful light circulated around Mellen, expanding like dreamy bubbles. In a blink of an eye, these small colorful bubbles formed a giant bubble, wrapping the entire cave.

When the bubbles dissipate, the cave disappears with them.

"Boom!~"

A violent vibration sounded. Due to the lack of the key structure of the cave, the overall structure of the magic cave began to become unstable, and there was a faint feeling that it was about to collapse.

Mellen glanced around and after confirming that nothing was left, he told the dogs to prepare to leave.

As the demon cave vibrated more and more violently, the structure at the bottom began to break, which was like a domino effect, causing a chain reaction.

The increasingly violent vibrations began to spread outward with the Demon Cave as the center. The natives living in the central area of the Golden Island were the first to feel it. They looked towards the center of the island in horror, at a loss as to what to do.

Even the Golden Port, which was far away on the edge of the island, felt some vibrations. The strong men looked towards the center of the island and felt a little uneasy in their hearts.

On the other side of the Golden Island lies the strongest indigenous tribe... the Barbarian Stone Tribe.

There are three gorgeous tents in the center of the Barbarian Stone Tribe, belonging to the patriarch, priest and witch doctor respectively. They each have their own duties and hold the highest status in the entire tribe.

At this time, the three of them gathered in the priest's tent.

The priest was a skinny old man. With a solemn expression, he spoke to the clan leader and the witch doctor, "The totem has revealed to me that a great disaster is about to strike the God-given Island. This is the totem's wrath! These disasters are brought by those outsiders, but the consequences will have to be borne by us, the gods' people."

The tribe leader was a sturdy, middle-aged man, nearly three meters tall. He exuded a mountain-like aura. He suddenly stood up, his voice filled with anger: "Those damned outsiders, those who blasphemed the totem, they are nothing but greedy hyenas and shameful thieves. We should have united the strength of all the gods and people and driven them out of our homeland long ago!"

The witch doctor was also an old man, dressed rather strangely. His clothing was woven from leaves of various shapes and hung with a number of odds and ends. He sighed and said, "We all understand that those outsiders on the island are only a small minority. If we truly become enemies, what awaits us will be an endless war."

Hearing the witch doctor's words, the clan leader's voice softened a bit, but he still couldn't suppress his anger: "Are we just going to let those outsiders desecrate the land given by God and humiliate the people of God?"

The witch doctor stopped talking. This was a dilemma. If there was a way to solve it, they wouldn't have been struggling with it for so many years.

After a long silence, the priest coughed lightly and said, "Now is not the time to discuss those outsiders. We need to deal with the impending disaster."

The patriarch exhaled to calm himself down and asked, "Master Priest, what kind of disaster is this?"

The priest's eyes grew dazed and unfocused, and he spoke in a voice like a murmur, "The earth was torn apart by the earthquake, and fire fell from the sky. Everything in sight was shrouded in black smoke and dust. The gods' people were suffocating and dying in agony."

After saying this, the priest returned to normal and added: "These are prophecies from the totem, and the time left for us to prepare is running out."

After hearing this, the tribe leader stood up and said, "I will mobilize all the forces in the tribe to start preparations."

The witch doctor hurriedly said, "We should also notify the other tribes. At least... at least if we are able, we should try our best to preserve some fire for them."

The patriarch paused and said indifferently, "I'll consider it."

Seeing this, the witch doctor looked at the priest, and seeing that the latter also had a blank expression, the witch doctor couldn't help showing disappointment.

Although the three of them are the highest level of the Barbarian Stone Tribe, the one with the highest status among the three is naturally the priest who can communicate with the Totem Lord, followed by the patriarch who holds the power of the tribe, and the witch doctor at the end.

If the priest could say a word, he could definitely preserve the flames of many tribes, even if it was just to take in a small number of children from those small and medium-sized tribes.

But now it seems that...

Melen had no idea about the reactions of Golden Port and the indigenous tribes, nor was he interested. He was standing on a high cliff in the central area of Golden Island, staring at the original site of the magic cave in a daze.

Along with the shaking of the earth and the rising smoke and dust, the entire magic cave has completely collapsed. The valley in the center of the island has disappeared, replaced by a bottomless abyss.

More importantly, along with increasingly dull vibration sounds, billowing black smoke rose from the abyss and spread all around.

Melen muttered to himself, "Could this be... a volcanic eruption?!"

Perhaps the underground volcano on the Golden Island was on the verge of erupting thousands of years ago, but was suppressed by the dragon clan's arrangements. Now that the suppression is gone, it will naturally enter the eruption state again.

Or perhaps it was because Melen took away the dragon tribe's troops, destroying the balance of the earth's pulses, causing the underground volcano to erupt.

In any case, once the volcano erupts, the entire Golden Island will inevitably be severely affected. This is not an uninhabited island, and many people will probably die at that time.

It would be fine if he didn't have the ability, but if he did, Mellen would not hesitate to help, not to mention that it seemed that he was the one who caused this big mess.

Melen vaguely remembered that in his previous life, while browsing the internet, he had stumbled upon a post somewhere that mentioned two methods of preventing a volcanic eruption...

One is to use a high-powered explosion to directly blow up the entire crater.

However, rigorous scientific calculations have shown that this method can only slightly mitigate the impact. Even if the crater is blown up, the loose rocks will still be blown away by the explosive volcanic eruption.

Unless the crater can be compacted and the force of the volcanic eruption can be completely blocked, in this case, this force may turn into an earthquake, or spread and conduct and erupt in other nearby geological weak points.

The second is to cool the gushing magma by pouring a large amount of water to solidify it layer by layer.

This method is actually similar to the first one in essence. The advantage is that it can vent and transmit some of the force in advance, thereby obtaining a greater buffer.

The downside is... the cost!

If a pipeline is built from the sea, not to mention how long and how large the displacement of the pipeline should be, how can we ensure that the last part of the pipeline will not be dissolved by the gushing magma?

If it is sprayed from the air by aircraft, not to mention the amount of cargo the aircraft can carry each time, the danger of operating above the crater alone is not something that ordinary people can bear. The floating volcanic ash and the ejected lava material may take the pilot's life at any time.

So to sum up, although there were theoretically ways to solve volcanic eruptions in the past, due to various conditions, there was no solution in practice.

However, there is no solution in the technological world, but the same may not be true in the extraordinary world.

Mellen only thought about it for a moment before making a plan. He looked at the golden retriever and said with a smile, "Transform yourself and let me see the effect."

The golden-haired creature nodded, and the next moment, pitch-black flames rose from its body. This was a variant of the Purgatory Fire, the Dark Hell Fire, also known as the Dark Hell Demonic Flame.

Under the Dark Hell Demon Flame, the Golden Hair's body grew rapidly, and its appearance also changed drastically. The dark golden hair on its body was burned out, and wide dark golden scales grew from under its skin. A pair of huge dragon wings grew on its back, and its head also began to turn into a dragon. Only three-tenths of it looked like a dog, and the remaining seven-tenths looked like a dragon. Two sharp dragon horns grew on the top of its head, and its eyes turned into dark golden vertical pupils. In the center, there was a hint of darkness that seemed to lead to an endless abyss.

Looking at the dark golden dragon in front of him, which was a hundred meters long and emitted a dragon power that made the air sticky, shock flashed in Melen's eyes.

Compared to this, the two legendary dog-headed beasts encountered in the magic cave are really no different from reptiles.

Melen sighed, "As expected, they are the dragon clan standing at the pinnacle of species evolution!"

Of course, the dragon that Melen mentioned does not refer to a certain type of dragon, but the dragon race itself.

Mellen jumped lightly and landed on the golden retriever's back.

Riding a dragon was once one of Melen’s fantasies, but he never expected it to come true today.

He wanted to take Spike back to the fairytale kingdom, but was rejected by the dog.

Then, as the golden retriever watched, Spike leisurely came to its back with a look of satisfaction on his face.

The golden retriever turned his head and stared at Spike, his eyes almost spitting fire, but Spike just thought it was a breeze on his face.

Mellen showed an amused look and said jokingly: "When did you two become so close?"

Spike and Golden Retriever looked at Mellen at the same time, both dogs' faces full of disbelief.

How did the boy/master know that they had a good relationship?!

Mellen waved his hand, not giving the two dogs a chance to explain, and said, "Alright, we can't hold out here for much longer. Let's set off quickly. Our destination...is the sea!"